Shirdi: Amidst protests against the new citizenship law, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Sunday accused the "Leftists, urban and rural Naxals" of trying to destabilise the country and mislead people over different issues.
The former Maharashtra minister also said that as the government has crushed the Naxals in the last five years, "silent Naxalism" has started and misleading people was part of it. He said the Congress, NCP and the Muslim community should realise that the Leftists were trying to disturb the country's peace and push their own agenda.
Patil was addressing a press conference during his visit to the Saibaba Samadhi in Shirdi town in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.
"Muslims in the country, Congress and NCP are not able to understand that Leftists, Maoists, urban Naxals and rural Naxals, who are on the rise, want to destabilise the country.
Urban Naxals are trying to mislead the people on various issues," he said in response to a query on the forces behind the anti-CAA protests.
"I appeal to our opponents Congress and NCP that elections and running a government are different things.
Sometimes you win, sometimes we. But they should take note of the incidents that are destabilising the country," he added.
Patil said members of the Muslim community should tell in a debate what their problems are (concerning the CAA).
"It is being fed in your mind that you have a problem.
Anywhere it is being said that (PM Narendra) Modiji is going to build a jail in Delhi and Muslims from across the country will be put there. Is it possible? So how does this get into the minds of Muslims?" he added.
